Posted in custard, dessert, fruit, nuts, pie, summer, tuesdays with dorie on Aug 24th, 2010
It’s hot. Usually at this time of year, I’m glaring at everyone who is eating chili and baking pumpkin treats and looking forward to fall, wondering how anyone could possibly want to move on from the sunny days of summer. But now it’s too hot, and I just want a few days where the high [...]
Posted in chocolate, custard, dessert, gluten free, tuesdays with dorie on Aug 10th, 2010
I was doubting Dorie when I mixed up the custard for this ice cream. It’s made like any other custard-based ice cream, so I would have sworn that Dorie threw “ganache” in the title just to make it sound fancier and more decadent, when in fact it was just standard chocolate ice cream. Oh, how [...]
After the lemon cream tart, I was pretty sure I was done with lemon cream. With thirty tablespoons of butter in the whole tart, there is no reasonably sized serving. And then there’s my favorite lemon tart, which uses the whole lemon, peel and all. But I was making this for my mom, and I [...]
Posted in chocolate, custard, dessert, freezer friendly, fruit, pie, summer on May 25th, 2010
The rest of the country (hemisphere, I suppose) is gearing up for summer. Here in the desert though, we’ve been there for a while. This weekend Dave and I hiked over seven miles in 90 degree weather. It’s a dry heat though! (Actually, the hike wasn’t bad at all – it was either shady or [...]
Posted in custard, dessert, fall, fruit, tuesdays with dorie on May 18th, 2010
Seasonal fruit – I like it. I eat the strawberries in the spring and the blueberries in the summer and the apples in the fall and the apples, still, in the winter. I do not eat the apples in the spring. And apparently I shouldn’t eat the cherries in the spring either, because these were [...]
Posted in custard, dessert, fruit, pie, summer, tuesdays with dorie on May 10th, 2010
I can’t be the only one who prefers recipes that use whole eggs instead of egg parts. It isn’t just a mild packrat tendency, although I’m sure that’s part of it. I buy the expensive eggs – the ones that are hopefully (but questionably, I know) from slightly less mistreated animals. Throwing away egg whites [...]
Posted in custard, dessert, gluten free, tuesdays with dorie on May 3rd, 2010
I used to be so good with caramel. For years, I made caramel with no problems, and then when I made this hazelnut cake, everything changed. I can’t remember how many batches of caramel I made for that cake, each one forming crystals instead of turning amber; I do remember that even the final batch [...]
Posted in chocolate, custard, dessert, nuts, pie, summer, tuesdays with dorie on Mar 16th, 2010
Chocolate and raspberry was my favorite flavor combination for a long time. It’s still up there for sure, but I’ve tried so many desserts recently that I’ve found all kinds of other great pairs – orange and vanilla, peaches and amaretto, cream cheese and anything. There’s no need to play favorites, but I was excited [...]
Posted in custard, dessert, pie, tuesdays with dorie on Mar 1st, 2010
I used to not like coconut. That was dumb. I used to not like a lot of ingredients that are actually very good – ingredients that I’m not sure I’d actually tried. That was also dumb. Although I think I would have liked this tart even back in my coconut-adverse days. There’s toasted coconut both [...]
Dave lucked out this year when his annual birthday pie didn’t come out quite right. Because then I made another one, and then when that one wasn’t perfect either, I made another one. The recipe is Tartine’s, and as usual, they take a classic and kick it up a notch. Their banana cream pie has [...]
